How to Play Monk in Dawntrail ~ A Full Guide to Monk in FFXIV



Want to play Monk? Don’t know where to start? It’s here! My Dawntrail Monk guide aimed at beginners and intermediate players who want to learn monk in FFXIV Dawntrail. This guide aims at teaching you from the very basics of Monk up to the full rotation and optimization. We are covering every mechanic that Monk has, the opener, burst window and of course the filler rotation. I hope you enjoy!

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00:00 Intro
00:20 Basics – The Forms
01:14 Basics – The Balls
02:28 Basics – Abilities / Ogcds / Buffs
03:47 Perfect Balance, Beast Chakra & Nadi
06:02 Six Sided Star
06:11 Basic Rotation / Filler Rotation
06:58 Double Lunar Opener Explanation
09:11 Opener Execution
09:44 1 Minute / Odd Minute Burst Windows
10:37 2 Minute / Even Minute Burst Windows
11:42 Outro

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16 thoughts on “How to Play Monk in Dawntrail ~ A Full Guide to Monk in FFXIV”

  1. Potency is stored in the balls.

    Also quick aside: Solar Lunar is used as the opener for most ultimates (with the notable exclusion of TOP), mostly due to some nonstandard kill times that let you do some wacky stuff. For example in TEA for Living Liquid you actually get 2 blitzes in your 2nd RoF if you delay using RoF until you almost have 2 stacks of Perfect Balance, as even with delaying RoF this much it will still be up in time for the BJCC reopener meaning you don't lose a use. You'd never ever do this in full uptime fights, but it's one of the wacky things we can do with nonstandard kill times.

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  2. really like how you show and explain the rotation and how it builds up step by step. honestly couldn't tell if i was playing it right so far because the fury didn't make sense to me until the new update.

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  3. 95% of my playtime i was mainly Tank and now i try to get into Monk and oh boy it's hard 😅 BUT i love Monk ever since FF11 i wanted to have it as my main DPS. That sayd, thank you for this guide. It really helps getting into the matter.

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  4. I haven't tried monk yet, but looking at the changes, it seems like it's more braindead now with no demolition dot and serpent strike buff to keep it uptime. Excited to play it later and level.

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  5. I was looking for a guide without the memes and the cringe sarcasm of the balance one and now I see the same terrible puns here… Guess I'll wait until the IV one…

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  6. I'm glad that I seem to have been mostly playing my monk right cause I've been running it in the extremes without truly knowing if what I was doing was optimal… But I am just sad that I feel like I am doing lower damage than other DPS (or compared to other melee dps at the very least) despite being near melded bis gear and I don't know if it's because I am playing wrong or that's just how mnk is

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